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Finally, UberUploadCropper gets a much needed update. First off, flash is gone. Now you can upload and crop with just javascript and your serverside language of choice. What is UberUploadCropper? It is a jQuery plugin which pulls together jCrop, Impromptu, and FileUploader plugins into one uniform unit to upload and crop images. The latest version [...]

If you recently downloaded Impromptu 3.2, you may want to grab it again. A small bug was fixed. I didn’t find it worth while to create a new version, it was a line of code. On top of that the bug was merely a visual detail, and not critical. Long story short the overlay always [...]

jQuery Impromptu has seen a little attention lately, mostly dealing with some mobile improvements. While it did work before on most decent devices, iPad and company politely decided not to enable the position:fixed css property. Of course the reasoning behind this is logical. If a large element is “position: fixed” on a mobile window, the [...]

In a post just a week or two ago I covered the topic of searching select dropdowns on key events. It seemed to work ok, but could use a bit of polishing. However for the project I was working on I ended up needing something a little more… “Obvious”. So the solution I came up [...]

Its been a while in the making, I’ve finally gotten Impromptu into Github, something I should have done a long time back. I’m excited to see how it evolves now, as it has been at a very stable 3.1 for a while. Also I created a themes folder with alternate themes (cough cough.. if you [...]